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1Cor. 3.9. 2Cor. 6.1. This association is evidently that of a Minister with God—and not, we think (as Doddridge and Macknight have supposed)—of one Minister with another. Comp. Rom. 16.3, 9, 21. Phil. 2.25, 4.3. Philemon 1, 24. “Yet all is of God.” For this co-operation is “God working in us to will and to do.” The strength for the work is imparted—not natural; nor was there any “fellow-worker” in the first principles of strength, or in its subsequent increase. ‘Eximium elogium Ministerii, quod, cum per se agere possit Deus, nos homunciones tanquam adjuteres adsciscat, et tanquam organis utatur.’ Calvin in 1Cor, 3.9. – “Instantly, with a service clause, man thinks that since he can act by himself, God takes us dwarfs as His helpers, as it were, and makes use of us as organs.”